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Corporate Governance Gaming: The Collective Power Of Retail Investors, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, Christina M. Sautter Oct 2021

Corporate Governance Gaming: The Collective Power Of Retail Investors, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, Christina M. Sautter

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The GameStop saga and meme stock frenzy have shown the pathway to the most disruptive revolution in corporate governance of the millennium. New generations of retail investors use technologies, online forums, and gaming dynamics to coordinate their actions and obtain unprecedented results. Signals indicate that these investors, whom we can dub wireless investors, are currently expanding their actions to corporate governance. Wireless investors’ generational characteristics suggest that they will use corporate governance to pursue social and environmental causes. In fact, wireless investors can set in motion a social movement able to bring business corporations to serve their original partly-private-partly-public purpose. …


In Juno V. Kite The Federal Circuit Strikes Down Patent Directed Towards Pioneering Innovation In Car T-Cell Therapy, Christopher M. Holman Jan 2021

In Juno V. Kite The Federal Circuit Strikes Down Patent Directed Towards Pioneering Innovation In Car T-Cell Therapy, Christopher M. Holman

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Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (also known as CAR T-cells) are T-cells that have been genetically engineered to produce an artificial T-cell receptor for use in immunotherapy. In recent years CAR-T cell therapy has emerged as an important new modality of cancer treatment, particularly for blood-borne cancers like leukemia. As would be expected, important advances in the development of CAR T-cell therapy have been the subject of extensive patenting and licensing activity. Juno v. Kite, a recent decision of the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit striking down a foundational CAR T-cell therapy patent, has raised serious questions as to …


Why Illinois Should Reevaluate Its Video Tolling (V-Toll) Subsidy, Randall K. Johnson Jan 2021

Why Illinois Should Reevaluate Its Video Tolling (V-Toll) Subsidy, Randall K. Johnson

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Tolls are levies with a limited base. This base is made up of drivers that pay user fees, in cash or via electronic transponder, in exchange for access to state-administered roads. In Illinois, every single toll is a function of three factors: vehicle characteristics, tollway entry point, and how far a driver goes on state-administered roads.

It is commonly assumed that any toll violation, i.e., any failure to pay, results in a traffic ticket, administrative fees and state-imposed sanctions. Such an assumption, however, is only partly true due to overly forgiving Illinois state policies. Examples include the Traffic Ticket Exemption, …


Perma.Cc And Web Archival Dissonance With Copyright, Paul D. Callister Jan 2021

Perma.Cc And Web Archival Dissonance With Copyright, Paul D. Callister

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Harvard’s Perma.cc offers the solution to linkrot—the phenomenon that citations in academic journals to web materials disappears with the passage of time, resulting in “broken links” and disappearance of material from the Web.

This article will describe Perma.cc and outline the kinds of copyright issues that may arise, including heavy use of copyright statutes and caselaw. It will examine the kind of preservation use of copyrighted materials, with reference to fair use, and the library prerogatives as exceptions to the exclusive rights of authors of materials found on the Web. This analysis includes detailed analysis of “transformative use” and the …